Full year pre-tax profit at IT services provider Phoenix IT Group has plunged 85% after the firm booked non-recurring costs of £14.9m relating to its ongoing re-organisation programme and £8.1m relating to the end of the ICM brand. Sales declined 2.6% to £264.6m. Phoenix is current

Business process management (BPM) specialist Software AG has revealed plans to put more focus on the UK and to recruit partners with vertical expertise. The software player with a strong reputation in the business process and operation transformation arena has traditionally sold direct to large ent

Microsoft has warned that those users that stick with Windows XP after support runs out face spiralling costs looking after a PC estate running its old operating system. The vendor has commissioned IDC to produce a white paper to sum up the risks those that stick with XP face to prod some more thou

Storage and network solutions provider Lanway has appointed former Equanet head of southern sales, David Holt, to run its own sales organisation. The arrival of Holt, who previously managed the corporate sales division at Insight, marks another step inthe reseller's expansion progress and follows an

Kaspersky has raised the alarm over what could be one of the most dangerous malicious programmes yet discovered. The vendor came across the malware after being called on by the International Telecommunication Union to investigate what was happening to data being deleted from computers in Western As

The reaction of the security industry to the discovery of the Flame threat, which appears to be the most complex attack launched so far in the ongoing cyber war, has been to call for resellers to sell customers greater layered defences. The discovery by Kaspersky of the Flame attack, which went und

Cloud computing with its promises of greater flexibility and cost s avings is becoming increasingly attractive to SMEs with a significant number planning to start using the technology in the near future. With cloud becoming a larger small business issue it provides the channel with even more incent

Casio has appointed a former Maverick staffer Oli Davies to drive its channel sales of its projectors across Southern England. Davies, who as well as a spell at Maverick also has some time at Sanyo on his CV, will be tasked in his role as business development manager with working with existing rese

Avnet has taken the wraps off a social media tool designed to help resellers keep their customers informed about the main developments in the vendor community. The distributor's socialondemand from purechannelapps enables messages from vendors to be disseminated to customers via social media messag

Tough economic conditions coupled with skills shortages threaten to hold back the market and development of managed service providers (MSPs). The warning that the financial climate is stunting more investment in managed services has been sounded in a survey of MSPs carried out by IBM. Big Blue rev

One year on from its acquisition of German national PC champion Medion, expansive Lenovo has suggested that the brand - which it bought with the express intention of bulking up its consumer-facing business as it seeks to become the largest global PC vendor - could have a strong future in the UK.

Lenovo EMEA products and channels vice president Vincent Fauquenot has been banging the drum on behalf of the PC hardware vendor's reseller base, saying that to achieve its ambition of being a top three PC vendor in EMEA, it will need to drive $1bn (£642m) worth of additional revenues through

ThinkGrid is widening its channel programme introducing more support for those resellers that are struggling to find the resources to get themselves trained to sell cloud technology. The vendor has embraced the channel in the past year providing marketing funds, a portal and support for partners bu

Blackberry maker RIM has kicked off a comprehensive review of its partnerships and joint ventures as it looks to claw back its position in the smart phone market. After the recently appointed CEO Thorsten Heins, president and CEO of Research in Motion, unveiled losses for the fourth quarter of $125

Resellers assuming that a website is enough of a cyber shop window to promote their services and products could find themselves lagging behind as social networks become the primary form of communication. Over the past couple of decades web sites have become the defacto way for businesses to show of

Oracle watchers will have to start following Larry Ellison's twitter stream to get an insight into what direction the vendor is going in as the CEO of the software giant plans to use his account to reveal its cloud strategy. Ellison has revealed that his first tweet will go out early next month to

SMEs are planning to grow their businesses if the economy doesn't cause them too many problems with more looking for credit and finance to grow in the next few months. The latest BDRC Continental SME Finance Monitor paints a picture of more small firms getting access to credit and an increase in co

The Technology Strategy Board is trumpeting the £20m of government investment that is heading to high-tech firms with projects that could provide a crop of world-beating home-grown products. Along with specialists in nanotechnology, bio sciences, electronics the ICT industry is also going to

The signs of recovery seen in the EMEA server market two years ago seem to have largely dissipated, according to Gartner's latest market stats, with the region suffering a second consecutive quarter of volume decline and a third consecutive quarter of revenue decline, and the bad news is there may b

A quick scan of identitytheft.org.uk, a government website backed by organisations and companies with an interest in reducing fraud, is enough to put the frighteners on any law abiding reader, writes Adam Bernstein. While many in the channel realise that fraud and identity theft affects us as priva

Microsoft has revealed the volume licensing price changes that come into force next month are not going to be as high as originally feared. There will still be hikes of up to 25.9% in some programmes but increases of up to 33.5% had been muted back in May when the preliminary changes were published

VoIP specialist Gradwell has outlined ambitions to grow its business significantly over the next four years looking for more activity from its channel partners. The growth plans come just months after the Bath-based firm gained £1.15m in investment from Altitude Partners. With VoIP expected

'SAN-free' datacentre specialist Nutanix has fetched up on European shores, announcing its first UK partners in the shape of distie SDG and solutions provider Kelway, as well as appointing former EMC andVMware operatives Alan Campbell as EMEA sales director,and Rob Tribe as regional SE manager EMEA.

In the past it used to be HMRC or the MoD that regularly lost data on discs or stolen laptops but the NHS is rapidly becoming the leakiest source of information. Following the fine that the NHS Trust in Brighton has been handed out, to the tune of £325,000, for a breach that could affect thou